Five minutes from Ira Glass on the time it takes to grow into creative talent. This speaks directly to how I feel about my photography right now. Whenever someone compliments my style, I can only think to myself, “that’s just a 50mm/f1.8 and the same portrait over and over again.” This was reassuring, especially given [...]
Off into Boston Common with friends for a picnic this last week of undergrad, and Boston’s despicable weather is finally considering playing nice with such springtime festivities. Let’s see how long it lasts.
“1. The Cowboy must never shoot first, hit a smaller man, or take unfair advantage. 2. He must never go back on his word, or a trust confided in him. 3. He must always tell the truth. 4. He must be gentle with children, the elderly, and animals. 5. He must [...]
Years ago, I lost any musical talent I may have gained from a few years of trumpet lessons (I remember playing pieces with lots of sixteenth notes, but don’t remember how well). But as most who know me can attest, I also have a tremendous - overriding - interest in inside baseball sorts of tidbits: [...]
Castro Street, nexus of San Francisco’s greatest neighborhoods and a cultural and historical home for the gay right’s movement, is turning back the clock to the mid 1970s for Hollywood. Store fronts all along the neighborhood’s main strip are being redone in period style, most notably - and nosalgically - Milk’s Castro Camera is back, [...]
I’ve been out of touch lately, but among other things am back to vigorous design work for Diesel/Bloc 11. Already I’m a design-loving layman getting paid to do the stuff for real (is there any more reviled stripe of graphic designer?), and now I’m diving into from-scratch web design. I welcome comments and stinging [...]
Rolling Stone/Chicago Tribune columnist Greg Kot has noticed our boy Ezra; the very favorable piece ran in yesterday’s Trib, and Ezra (along with the rest of us) was pretty excited to see it.
Coupled that with an appearance on a Best of 2007 list at Time Out New York, and it would seem like the boy [...]
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Reprising last year’s meme, here is my year in cities. Alas, no foreign travel for me in 2007, though I did get around the northeast pretty handily - I guess that is what comes from a summer spent back in Boston. Our low-budget spring break road trip through California barely registers here, with [...]